Air Caribbean Flight 309

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Air Caribbean Flight 309

A Beech 18, similar to the one involved
Accident
Date	September 26, 1978 (1978-09-26)
Summary	Crashed into a populated bar, caused by wake turbulence from an L-1011 jet
Site	Barrio Obrero in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico 18°26′24″N 66°00′43″W / 18.440°N 66.012°W / 18.440; -66.012
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Beech 18
Operator	Air Caribbean
Registration	N500L
Flight origin	Ramey Air Base, Aguadilla
Destination	Isla Verde International Airport, San Juan
Passengers	5
Crew	1
Fatalities	6
Survivors	0

Air Caribbean Flight 309 was a domestic, non-scheduled airline flight by Puerto Rican airline Air Caribbean, which on September 26, 1978, crashed as it was preparing to land at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (then known, unofficially, as Isla Verde International Airport) in San Juan, after a flight from Ramey Air Force Base (what is now known as Rafael Hernandez Airport) in Aguadilla, killing all six occupants of the aircraft and injuring several customers of a Barrio Obrero bar over which the airplane fell.^[1]